entertainment

Horror games give me the fear from kestrel1977 22 days old

[ ... ] passively imbibing the entertainment from a chair as you are in a book or film. You're an active part of the terrible drama, running for your ...

Derren Brown's unexpected balls up from kestrel1977 48 days old

In the past few weeks, mentalist Derren Brown's been pulling in audiences by apparently predicting the lottery, sticking viewers to their seats and ...

Smash TV - video games on the box from kestrel1977 50 days old

[ ... ] of early nineties kids' entertainment with the likes of Gamesmaster or Bad Influence. The former, a kind of proto Top Gear presented by Dominic ...

Parasol Stars - a forgotten masterpiece from kestrel1977 54 days old

Of all the games in Taito's Bubble Bobble lineage, Parasol Stars is among the least known. While Rainbow Islands has been ported to almost every computer, ...

Five retro game compilations I'd like to see from kestrel1977 92 days old

As I've mentioned before (see The great drunken retro game challenge of a couple of weeks back), game compilations are a fantastically compact, convenient ...

X-Multiply - the shooting genre's forgotten masterpiece from kestrel1977 98 days old

R-Type changed shoot-em-ups forever. It took the core gameplay of Scramble and Gradius - fly from left to right, collect power ups and kill things ...

The all time best and worst gun games from kestrel1977 106 days old

If you've ever fired a plastic gun at a screen, you'll know precisely the type of game I'm on about: the on-rails shooters where you fire at the digital ...

Boylemania: the cult of Susan Boyle from kestrel1977 214 days old

Take a look at that face. Are you sick of it yet? I know I am - in every newspaper, on the television and all over the internet, Susan Boyle's visage ...

Put your hands flat on the table - David Peace's Red Riding Quartet from kestrel1977 218 days old

It's highly unusual for me to buy a book just because I liked its television/film adaptation, but that's precisely what I did after watching Channel ...

Resident Evil 5: first play from kestrel1977 346 days old

Thanks to the vagaries of geography, Japan Xbox owners were able to download a playable demo of Resident Evil 5 about four days ago - and it doesn't ...